{"id":195,"date":"2018-03-25T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=195"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:33:46","slug":"using-a-right-angle-viewfinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Using a Right Angle Viewfinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_8149-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><br \/>\nAs I had a few moments to myself this morning, I finally unwrapped my birthday present and gave it a go.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll admit, it took me a few more seconds than I planned to work out how to attach it, but I got there&#8230;it really isn&#8217;t rocket science.\u00a0 As I&#8217;m just a beginner, this is a very basic viewfinder.\u00a0 It&#8217;s by <em>Neewer<\/em> and was about \u00a325 from Amazon with mostly good reviews.<br \/>\nSo I took it out into the garden to see if I could take any decent pics.\u00a0 In my defense, it was an overcast morning with a breeze.\u00a0 I was trying to do close up pics of flowers without a tripod or monopod.\u00a0 Lots of the morning pics have now been deleted!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve attached a little Gallery to show some examples of images I took this morning.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, on the\u00a0<strong>plus side:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t get wet knees lying in the grass!<\/li>\n<li>Less yoga-like poses needed to get up close to the flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Easy to assemble.<\/li>\n<li>Attachment swivels depending on the orientation of the image (I was a bit slow to suss this out!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the\u00a0<strong>down sides:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I ended up with very smudged glasses&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Possibly more images were blurred, but that could just be due to newness and the conditions of the morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall though, I like my new toy!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I had a few moments to myself this morning, I finally unwrapped my birthday present and gave it a go.\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}